Bee Time : Lessons from the Hive / Mark L. Winston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winston, Mark L., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bee culture--Social aspects.

Bee culture.

Honeybee--Social aspects.

Honeybee.

Honeybee--Behavior.

Bees (Cooperative gatherings).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

Pilot project,eBook available to selected US libraries only

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being among bees is a full-body experience, Mark Winston writes—from the low hum of tens of thousands of insects and the pungent smell of honey and beeswax, to the sight of workers flying back and forth between flowers and the hive. The experience of an apiary slows our sense of time, heightens our awareness, and inspires awe. Bee Time presents Winston’s reflections on three decades spent studying these creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world. Like us, honeybees represent a pinnacle of animal sociality. How they submerge individual needs into the colony collective provides a lens through which to ponder human societies. Winston explains how bees process information, structure work, and communicate, and examines how corporate boardrooms are using bee societies as a model to improve collaboration. He investigates how bees have altered our understanding of agricultural ecosystems and how urban planners are looking to bees in designing more nature-friendly cities. The relationship between bees and people has not always been benign. Bee populations are diminishing due to human impact, and we cannot afford to ignore what the demise of bees tells us about our own tenuous affiliation with nature. Toxic interactions between pesticides and bee diseases have been particularly harmful, foreshadowing similar effects of pesticides on human health. There is much to learn from bees in how they respond to these challenges. In sustaining their societies, bees teach us ways to sustain our own.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue: Walking into the Apiary

1 Beginning with Bees

2 Honey

3 Killer Bees

4 A Thousand Little Cuts

5 Valuing Nature

6 Bees in the City

7 There’s Something Bigger than Phil

8 Art and Culture

9 Being Social

10 Conversing

11 Lessons from the Hive

Epilogue: Walking out of the Apiary

References

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

0-674-50390-2

OCLC:

891589954